Chapter 11. Messaging
Application architectures designed around services need to build methods for communicating between these services. While REST and HTTP and JSON enable quick synchronous communication, messaging systems enable the creation of more robust asynchronous communication between services. This chapter looks at how messaging systems can be used in place of HTTP for writing data between services. It also goes over parts of the AMQP messaging standard and RabbitMQ, an open source implementation of AMQP.
What Is Messaging?
Messaging is how services communicate with each other. Traditional service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches use HTTP as the message transport protocol and SOAP as the message format. SOAP is an XML standard ...
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